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Yea, the only proprietary part in it is the UI. It's a necessary evil, as they can use it as a bargaining chip right now. Possibly will be open-sourced later, and also nothing is stopping people from using a different UI.
It's really awesome to see such a variety of hardware running Mer. And I can't wait to see what hardware Jolla's new phone will have.

Their "ecosystem" (I don't like that word in this context, as I'm a student in the actual Ecology ) is the entirety of MeeGo apps, and it should support a lot of GNU/Linux apps with relative ease. As for the whole system, aside from locking the bootloader, there should be nothing manufacturers could do to lock it down. And it makes no sense to do so. Sailfish OS is nothing more than Mer + Sailfish UI, and you can follow every commit of Mer.

As for the whole system, aside from locking the bootloader, there should be nothing manufacturers could do to lock it down. And it makes no sense to do so. Sailfish OS is nothing more than Mer + Sailfish UI, and you can follow every commit of Mer.

Sounds like they'd want to keep the base system + Qt version stable and OSS, and then on top of that carriers and manufacturers can do what they want (like us using a different WM/DE on a desktop linux). That would give them a nice advantage over Android, and could also alleviate the versioning and compatibility hell of Android?

For the critics in this thread - What do you expect them to do? What are their options right now? I really don't see your criticism as constructive in any way or give them a path to put food on the table for their families.

For everyone else - Sailfish will use Myriad Alien Dalvik so it will be able to run most Android apps plus I have a feeling they or hackers will help along the libhybris project once a community starts forming/gaining momentum up around this OS which will happen since Android hackers will crossover and linux hackers also.